What did you rehang today?

Yankee Josh said:
Here's the Red Knight filed, honed and hung;
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This haft was painted white I believe from a factory.
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I was pleasantly surprised to find white oak under there! My first white oak helve. It's closed cell and has long rays as opposed to the open cell and short rays of red oak. Here's a couple prior to final seating of the head;
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Has very near 100% contact at the bottom of the eye and fairly decent contact up from the bottom. I've done better but I hung it up off the shoulder a ways so there's plenty of room to re-hang when it comes loose in the coming years.
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You can see I was a little rushed to get this hung last evening and didn't sand enough off the sides near the back of the tongue. So my wedge was driven forward as I drove it home. It's all good though it won't be a major issue. Wedge is driven in hard two and a quarter inches out of the two and a half available in the kerf.
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Here's some of the beautiful rays...
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I have to say I'm pretty smitten with this white oak. It works even easier than red and it's lighter. But according to those who know it's actually a little tougher! Good stuff! The steel on this axe is comparable with Snow & Neally vintage stuff. A good temper. Anyhow another connie! Gotta love that! Take care guys!
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Since Red Knight came up, here is a boy's axe I've wanted to make right.

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It picked it up on the white with red swell handle. It will go back on it.
 
Agent_H said:
Since Red Knight came up, here is a boy's axe I've wanted to make right.

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It picked it up on the white with red swell handle. It will go back on it.
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Awesome! Can't wait to see it finished! Where did you find that one?
Honestly I had never heard of(or paid attention to) the Red Knight line. But now that I stumbled on that Connecticut pattern and have been looking there really aren't many around.
 
ithinkverydeeply said:
Crazy! Just crazy! That’s gotta be your favorite axe!?
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Yes it is definitely one of my favorites! Also because of that helve too though. Been saving that one for a long time.
I made a mask for that axe last evening. I sewed it, with a welt, but it's still a simple one. Although I used a stud this time and not a snap.
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And thanks to everyone else too. I feel privileged to own these tools. Some of them are really beautiful! But it's not nearly as much fun if you can't share em a little with like minded folks.
 
Haven't had a chance to post anything in ages it seems! A while back I had a co-worker ask for a nice axe to take camping, her cheapo metal handled hatchet wasn't quite cutting it at the fire pit.

I found this boy's axe for just a few bucks, got it all cleaned up and put a decent edge on it, and popped it onto a House Handle 28" stick. Of course it needed a quick leather mask too. Should serve her well!

The head has remnants of blue paint and is stamped with a "P" and a "1" on opposite sides.

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Miller '72 said:
Good Monday morning...I managed to rehang this young fella over the weekend.

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26½" oak haft
3lb Plumb National
Dark walnut & poplar wedge
Total weight 3½lbs
Hand filed, Nicholson USA-flat bastard & mill bastard
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I love how dark that haft turned out! Is that just blo? It's beautiful with that head on it. It seems like you've got a bunch of national patterns. Do I have that right? I seem to recall you posting a bunch of them.
Also, I'm curious, did you hang it closed on purpose or was it a consequence of filling the bottom of the eye?
Sometimes I end up having to hang some more closed than I want to make sure it's good n' full on the bottom!
 
Yankee Josh said:
I love how dark that haft turned out! Is that just blo? It's beautiful with that head on it. It seems like you've got a bunch of national patterns. Do I have that right? I seem to recall you posting a bunch of them.
Also, I'm curious, did you hang it closed on purpose or was it a consequence of filling the bottom of the eye?
Sometimes I end up having to hang some more closed than I want to make sure it's good n' full on the bottom!
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Thank you. Just BLO and i intentionally hung it as closed as possible while keeping maximum contact to the tongue. I love a closed hang :cool::thumbsup:

I have 3 national pattern plumbs including this most recent.
One a scout on original haft...a near future project.
The other is a a 1¾lb hatchet i inherited from my grandfather

Hope to find more:thumbsup::cool:
 
Miller '72 said:
Thank you. Just BLO and i intentionally hung it as closed as possible while keeping maximum contact to the tongue. I love a closed hang :cool::thumbsup:

I have 3 national pattern plumbs including this most recent.
One a scout on original haft...a near future project.
The other is a a 1¾lb hatchet i inherited from my grandfather

Hope to find more:thumbsup::cool:
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Looks gorgeous.
Some hafts just turned out that dark, I've got one that turned out this dark and one might swear these were torched
 
I've had a couple that have really darkened up a lot with blo.
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I've got a few others that got real dark after oil as well but can't seem to locate the photos.
I find Miller's so cool because it's oak! Appears to me to be red oak though I'm not a hundred percent sure. I've never seen oak get that dark so it's encouraging! I'll have a lot of gorgeous hand made hafts in 50+ years! Lol.
 
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Plumb 3lb on a NOS 30" handle. I just had to scrape and oil it to let it's beauty show. The head was sharpened with 3 grades of files and will catch on a fingernail.

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